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# קָצֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7116

**short** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

short [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7116/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָצֵר²: adj. short [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7116/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. short;—in phr. קִצְרֵי־יָד 2 K 19:26 short of hand, feeble, = Is 37:27; fig. קְצַר־אַפַּיִם Pr 14:17 = impatient, so קְצַר רוּחַ v 29 (opp. אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם); of time קְצַר יָמִים †Jb 14:1 short-lived.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[a person\] short (2); \[were\] short (2); \[is\] short (1).

## In the verses

[Job 14:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.1/#tree)

אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃

*Word for word:* a.human.being born of.a.woman \[is\].short of.days and surfeited of.turmoil

*JPS 1917:* Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

[Proverbs 14:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.17/#tree)

קְֽצַר־אַ֭פַּיִם יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה אִוֶּ֑לֶת וְאִ֥ישׁ מְ֝זִמּ֗וֹת יִשָּׂנֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[a.person\].short of.anger(s) he.does foolishness and a.person of.evil.devices he.is.hated

*JPS 1917:* He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly; and a man of wicked devices is hated.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7116.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7116/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).